{"id":269138,"date":"2026-08-29T13:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T13:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/269138\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T13:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T13:17:08","slug":"shafaq-news-uk-exports-to-iraq-rise-3-7-in-q2-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/269138\/","title":{"rendered":"Shafaq News..UK exports to Iraq rise 3.7% in Q2 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-08-29T12:45:07+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- London<\/p>\n<p>Iraq imported about $111<br \/>\nmillion in British goods in the second quarter of 2026, up 3.7% from roughly<br \/>\n$107 million in the previous quarter, data from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)<br \/>\nshowed on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Vehicles and automotive<br \/>\ncomponents led purchases at about $33 million, followed by pharmaceuticals at<br \/>\n$20 million and machinery and mechanical equipment at $12 million.<\/p>\n<p>Electrical equipment accounted<br \/>\nfor around $6.9 million, while essential oils, perfumes, cosmetics, and<br \/>\npersonal care products reached $6.2 million. Other goods included optical and<br \/>\nmedical instruments, fuels, beverages, chemicals, paints, and inks.<\/p>\n<p>Bilateral trade remains<br \/>\nheavily tilted toward UK exports. UN Comtrade figures released in April 2026<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Economy\/Iraqi-exports-to-UK-limited-to-4M-in-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">put<\/a> Iraqi exports to the British market at only about $4 million in 2025. Unlike<br \/>\nIraq\u2019s exports to many other markets, which are dominated by crude oil, sales<br \/>\nto Britain consisted largely of food products.<\/p>\n<p>An Iraqi Ministry of Finance<br \/>\nreport published in 2025 valued overall trade between the two countries at<br \/>\n$1.108 billion in 2024, up from $1.072 billion a year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-08-29T12:45:07+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- London Iraq imported about $111 million in British&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[22240,152,3400,2038,94,811,73621],"class_list":["post-269138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-bilateral-trade","tag-breaking","tag-exports","tag-imports","tag-iraq","tag-uk","tag-uk-exports-to-iraq-rise-3-7-in-q2-2026"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117178993475009787","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}